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15.
Foucault’s Scientia Sexualis
✤ History of Sexuality vols 1,2 and 3
✤ what appears as a "repression" of sexual drives
is a huge increase in the discussion of sex
✤ Discourse on sexuality - confession >
consultation
✤ from the Christian confessional box to the
sexologist’s, in the 19th century, and then in the
20th century the psychoanalyst’s couch
Michel Foucault ✤ Consultation + Web2.0 = Chat: sexual discourse
now the domain of all

17.
Scientia Sexualis Videre
✤ More than just
self-advertising
✤ Competitive sexual
exhibitionism
✤ more to do with
communication
about sex
– albeit that that
communication is visual
rather than oral or textual – than it is about sex itself

19.
Video-discourse
✤ As Nakamura (2008) has described,
digital images are as open to
interpretation as Foucauldian visual
“discourse-objects” (Foucault
1995:140) as are vocal and written
statements.
✤ the exchange of imagery online
becomes a confessional sexual
activity in its own right, quite apart
from the physical meetings that may
or may not be arranged through the
website

23.
Queer Theory
1. “a conceptualization of sexuality which sees sexual power
embodied in different levels of social life, expressed discursively
Sexuality
and enforced through boundaries and binary divides”
2. “the problematization of sexual and gender categories, and of
identities in general. Identities are always on uncertain ground, Identity
entailing displacements of identiﬁcation and knowing”
3. “a rejection of civil-rights strategies in favor of a politics of carnival,
transgression and parody which leads to deconstruction, Carnival
decentering, revisionist readings and an anti-assimilationist politics”
4. “a willingness to interrogate areas which normally would not seen
as the terrain of sexuality, and to conduct "queer" readings of Queer
ostensibly heterosexual or non-sexualized texts.”
Stein and Plummer 1996

31.
Vancouver attack
✤ Grindr condemned the attack on a 15yr old boy by a
Vancouver 54 yr old.
✤ Police blamed the geo-tagging iPhone app Grindr available on
Apple Itunes for a sexual assault on a 15-year-old boy.
✤ Bren Tynan, 54, from Vancouver was charged with sexual
assault, sexual interference and invitation to sexual touching.
✤ “Grindr strongly condemns the inappropriate and criminal use
of our service and actively cooperates with local authorities on
any alleged illegal activity on our service,” Grindr spokesman
✤ Inter-generational sexual contact becomes an ‘attack’ when the
boy is under the ‘legal’ age. At different times in recent history
this age was 21. In Holland the age is 14, where in this case no
‘criminal’ act would have taken place. This is NOT the boy in question

37.
Conclusion
✤ Grindr epitomises activities outside heteronormative, assimilated gay
coupling, and attracts opprobium because of it
✤ Neither the Christian concept of non-procreative ‘sin’ nor the more
liberal classical pagan focus upon ‘moderation’ would seem to
approve of the contacts and activities Grindr facilitates
✤ The AppStore iPhone platform contrains at the same time as allowing
Grindr
✤ Niche Sexual Social Networking moving off the web into mobile
location-based services pushing at the boundaries of social
acceptability